Convertible nursery-chair



H. S. HALE. Gon-ve-r'tiblwNursery-Ghair.' No. 224,181.

Patented Feb. 3, I880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY S..HALE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CONVERTlBLENURSERY-CHAI R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,181, dated February 3, 1880.

' Application filed September 4, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY S. HALE, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in OOIIVGILlblG' bars can be used either as rockers or as a means of'pushing or drawing the chair about :from place to place.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a convertible chair with my improvement the parts being adjusted so as to form a high chair; and Fig. 2, asectional view of the chair with the parts adjusted so as to form a rocking-chair.

The body of the chair comprises the seat, back, and arms, as usual, and is provided with opposite side frames, A A, to which are hinged the front legs, B B, and back legs, D D. The body of the chair is also furnished, in the present instance, with the usual pla v-table, to which issecured a representation of ahorses head, as shown in Fig. 2, the table not being shown in Fig. 1, as its representation there would interfere with the proper showing of other portions of the chair.

Each pair of legs, B and D, has at the lower end atransverse rod or shaft, a, on which are mounted wheels b.

The legs B and D are combined with stops and catches, so arranged that said legs can be retained either in the contracted position shown in Fig. l-or in the extended position shown in Fig. 2.

On each side of the chair is a curved bar,-

J, one end of each of these bars being free, andthe opposite end beinghinged outside of the wheels I) to one of the projecting ends of the shaft a, carried by the front legs, B. The free ends of the bars J are connected together by a transverse rod, 01, and in the angles formed by this transverse rod and the bars J are secured plates 6.

When a high chair is desired the bars J are turned up, as shown in Fig. 1, and the rod d hooked to. the back of the seat, so that the chair is supported by the wheels b, and the bars J serve as a convenient means of pushing the chair about from place to place.

If low chair with rockers is desired the bars J are turned down and the rollers .12 on the rear legs, D, run onto the plates 6, so that the chair is supported entirely by the said bars J, and is free to rock.

When a low chair without rockers is desired the bars J may either be turned up, as shown by the dotted -lines 1 in Fig.2, so as to serve as a means of propelling the chair, which now rests on the wheels 1;, or the bars J may be turned over to the front of the chair, as shown by the dotted lines 2, in which case they serve as a means of drawing the chair forward.

' The bars J may, if desired, be reversed and hinged to the rear legs. D; but in such case the bars cannot be used in the position shown by the dotted lines, Fig. 2; hence the mode of hanging the bars shown in the drawings is preferred. 7

I claim as my invention--- 7 1. The combination of the chair-body and two pairs, B and D, of legs, each pair pivoted to the said body and mounted on rollers, with the curved side bars, J J, pivoted to the front pair of legs, as set forth, so that they may serve as'rockin g supports when the legs are moved outward, br as means for pushing or for drawing the chair about, as specified.

2. The combination of the body of the chair and the two pivoted pairs, B and D, of legs with the curved bars J J, hung to the front pair of legs, and having plates 0 for supporting the rear pair when the said legs have been moved outward, as set forth.

, In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, ALEX. PATTERSON,

HARRY SMITH. 

